Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 2014 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in November 2014, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in November 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2014A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 2nd November 2014A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 3rd November 2014In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 4th November 2014Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 5th November 2014A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 6th November 2014Work out 9 x 8.
- 7th November 2014Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 8th November 2014y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 9th November 2014Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 10th November 2014Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 11th November 2014A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 12th November 2014State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 13th November 2014Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 14th November 2014State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 15th November 2014Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 16th November 2014A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 17th November 2014State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 18th November 2014Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 19th November 2014Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 20th November 2014In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 21st November 2014A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 22nd November 2014Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 23rd November 2014Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 24th November 2014Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 25th November 2014A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 26th November 2014A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 27th November 2014A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 28th November 2014The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 29th November 2014Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 30th November 20143/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.